EVU projects

Smart Living

Smart Living is the strategy for global change from fossil fuel to renewable energy.

Electrification of transport is the only thinkable option for a quick global change that can help cooling down the planet and help improving the quality of life for a growing urban civilization of more than 50% of the global population.

Norway is the world leader with 99,7% of its electricity production coming from renewable energy sources. The Norwegian Parlament has decided to integrate the growing stock of EVs into smart buildings and connect to a smart electricity grid in 2019. The financial power of the Norwegian State is the strongest on earth with a pension fund established by income from oil and gas of 7000 billion NOK.

ENOVA is a Norwegian Governmental Agency with substantial financial resources to help developing energy efficiency and new renewable energy with distributed power, energy storage and electrification of road transport as some of the key issues to be supported.

The Norwegian Government is an enthusiastic supporter of smart electric solutions. The Norwegians are well educated, and the uptake of new, clean technologies are higher in this country than any other countries. EVU has a «best practice» plan for action by using the full potential of an open society and modern democracy.

The strongest market for EVs on the Globe is Finnøy on the west coast of Norway. 70% of all new cars sold in Finnøy are EVs.

Summits and the congress

EVU do organize Summits on specific topics. Our senior advisor, Frederic Vergels, is the organizer of the European Electric Vehicle Congress (EEVC). This congress is always sited in the EU capital - Brussels.

The Norwegian Association Against Noise

The President of EVU, Rune Haaland, is also the President of the Norwegian Association Against Noise and air pollution. This NGO have documented that 80% of dangerous noise is related to road traffic. A primary target for the Association is silent vehicles with low noise tyres and low noise asphalt . EV incentives and stronger noise legislations will be needed to help avoiding health effects. The Association has a crew of 3.

The Ministry of Transport and Communication is investigating the possibility of introducing a low noise arctic proof asphalt with non-toxic substances. Norway will most probably use an adjusted version of low noise asphalt from Sweden, with the purpose of achieving 8db lower noise from road transport. Silent tyres will add on 8 db more.

The noise level of EVs in residential areas and heavy urban traffic, is mainly caused by the engine. In speed under 40 km hour - EVs has a substantial lower noise impact than ICE cars. In higher speed the noise level will be the same for both categories for the environment outside the cars. The noise level inside the electric car is more silent, mainly because there is no exploitations inside the motor, and there are less vibrations causing noise in the cabin. The Association promote all kind of EVs like segway, E-bikes, E-buses, E-lorries, boats, snow scooters, and jet skies for pleasure purposes.

Silent transport due to the improvements of batteries, have made new possibilities for silent motor technology.

EU Projects

EVU has activities in several EU consortiums working on projects related to mobility. I-CVUE is an example of such a project financed by the European Commission.

World EV Parade

EVU is the owner of the global competition «World EV Parade» with a traveller trophy moving around by cities. Oslo established the world record of 255,5 EVs in an uninterrupted row of zero emission vehicles driven by the oldest Norwegian hydroelectric power plant «Hammeren» owned by the Municipality of Oslo and still in operation. The Oslo-record was set in august 2013.

The world record was broken by Bryne in may 2014 with an uninterrupted row of 400 EVs driven by wind power from the «Erik Bye turbine» on the Høg Jæren windpark.

Other cities have tried to beat this record, but failed because of lack of documentation on renewable electricity for the energy used on the vehicles attending. Beijing has been challenged by the major of Bryne.